Ratko Mladic was arrested this morning May 26, 2011. He was caught in the village of Lazarevo, in Vojvodina, Serbia. It has been reported that Ratko Mladic was picked up by the Serbian police but president Boris Tadic stated that the fugitive was caught by the Serbian Security Intelligence Agency in his cousin’s house.

Mladic should be extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in a couple of days so that he can be tried. President Boris Tadic declared that this arrest would bring Serbia one step closer to full reconciliation in the Balkan region.

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According to the case sheet of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Ratko Mladic is indicted for:

• Genocide; complicity in genocide;
• Persecutions on political; racial and religious grounds; extermination; murder; deportation (crimes against humanity, Articles 5 and 7)
• Murder, unlawfully inflicting terror upon civilians, cruel treatment, attacks on civilians, taking of hostages (violation of the laws or customs of war, Articles 3 and 7)

The UN ICTY has already indicted – among the most wanted ones – the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic; the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic; Croatian Ante Gotovina – recently sentenced; and 158 other men. As Franjo Tudjman, former president of Croatia is dead, he will not be convicted. The former president of the RSK (Republic of Serbian Krajina), Goran Hadzic would be the last fugitive.

More than 200,000 people died during the latest Yugoslav wars. May they rest in peace.

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